• Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is US car companies using their paid off politicians to make the US pressure another country into not making a deal that would increase competition in that market to their detriment .That’s many layers of fuckery deeper.

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      7 months ago

      Is it that if they’re just blocking the vehicles that are subsidized? Let’s see what these EVs sell for without the Chinese government paying half the production costs.

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          7 months ago

          The subsidies in the US apply to companies of any nationality. The subsidies from China only cover companies controlled by the Chinese government.

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      7 months ago

      Everything you said is true, except you are missing the context that this is for-profit US car companies not wanting to compete against state-owned car manufacturers who get all of their money from China and can take huge losses in order to outsell for-profit, private entities.

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      7 months ago

      It’s false Chinese subsidized market… We don’t want that.

      They will price out domestic companies at a loss and then ramp up prices later.

      We want a free market without subsidized anything